FIBA

Rajon Rondo is going to run with a Kentucky Wildcat alumni all-star team: On August 15, Calipari's two teams will collide at Rupp Arena, according to tweets from the head coach. Team Dominican Republic will face Team Kentucky, which will be made up of eight of the program's former stars. Calipari will coach the national [...]

Now that you have a general understanding of this premise of Foreign Born Celtics, I am going to pull out all the stops (Well we still have Rick Fox and Dino Radja left). This player could fit two categories of both Celtic Foreigner and Obscure Celtic (might have to start one when I run out [...]

Via Chris Sheridan (via Chris Forsberg): Erden told me that each of the players on the Turkish National Team that won the silver medal at last month's World Championship received a bonus of 1 million Turkish Lira (about $700,000) along with a free villa/apartment, courtesy of a wealthy Turkish real estate mogul who wanted to [...]

The alley comes courtesy off Ricky Rubio. The oop was provided by Rudy Fernandez. The "OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH" was provided by you, just now, when you saw that play (from the FIBA World Championships today). Sick. [...]

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big storyline. Because there's nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. When you made the change from Rondo to Rose gave more options to players in the game: Well I think it wasn’t just Rondo, I think our [...]

I'll admit, that headline sounds more hopeful than the entire tone of this interview Doc gave in San Antonio yesterday. He's still solidly, if his words are taken at face value, on the fence. He genuinely seems conflicted between the pull of family and the pull of his team. He says flat out that the [...]

We all know the one thing luring Doc Rivers away from the Celtics is the call of his family. And while all of his kids are tremendous athletes, the one with the most promise is clearly his son Austin. The kid is already one of the top college prospects in America (ESPN ranks him #2), [...]

Via ESPN: According to several sources, Arroyo, represented by Leon Rose, is in talks to join either the Boston Celtics or the Milwaukee Bucks. However, both teams told ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan that they have had no contact whatsoever with Arroyo or his representatives. On Saturday, El Nuevo Dia, a newspaper out of Puerto Rico, reported [...]